Don'tjudge a book by its cover.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

If youare standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Oppositesattract and then can't stand each other.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Man wonders over the restless Sea........ the flowing waters...... the sight of the sky....... and forgets that as all wonders, man him self is the mast wonderful.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.